The 2012 crop of Cool Vendors in manufacturing operations illustrates the importance manufacturers place on product quality and safety, as well as safe and reliable production operations. The vendors apply innovative approaches to tackling these high-priority issues. ■ Combining real-time data and risk assessment models is a paradigm shift in the world of safety management, opening the door to ...

Characteristics of the Street Vendors Usage in Sungai Penuh City. Management Office The formulation research problem. How Study Useof Vendors’ Spatial Planning City? This study uses a qualitative approach which data obtained through free field interviews with 9 informant. From results note that Use Traders are not fully aware trading on roadside and sidewalks w3ill damage beauty city.The street...

Panelists respond to the question, “What does industry need from simulation vendors in Y2k and after?” The panelists include software vendors, simulation modelers from industry, simulation consulting, and academia.

Vendors in the Android ecosystem typically customize their devices by modifying Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code, adding in-house developed proprietary software, and pre-installing third-party applications. However, research has documented how various security problems are associated with this customization process. We develop a model of the Android ecosystem utilizing the concepts of ga...

While virtual communities (VCs) have been used mainly for information sharing and social networking, little is known as to how online vendors can derive benefits from them in practice. VCs are particularly successful in attracting and retaining members. Online vendors have attempted to capitalize on this characteristic of a virtual community (VC) for obtaining numerous commercial benefits, such...

Darknet markets are online services behind Tor where cybercriminals trade illegal goods and stolen datasets. In recent years, security analysts and law enforcement start to investigate the darknet markets to study the cybercriminal networks and predict future incidents. However, vendors in these markets often create multiple accounts (i.e., Sybils), making it challenging to infer the relationsh...

Motivated by recent progress on pricing in the AI literature, we study marketplaces that contain multiple vendors offering identical or similar products and unit-demand buyers with different valuations on these vendors. The objective of each vendor is to set the price of its product to a fixed value so that its profit is maximized. The profit depends on the vendor’s price itself and the total v...

Operational capabilities are essential for any business in today’s highly competitive environment. Whereas prior research on IT outsourcing vendors’ operational capabilities has examined internal mechanisms, little is known about the effect of clients. This study focuses on clients’ influence based on multiple cases drawn from the Japan-China IT outsourcing context. What is unique about this co...